This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > History > World > World History – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books World History Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A primary source is a record of the past created by A) Someone who lived at the time. B) The most well-respected scholar of a given subject. C) A historian. D) The only witness to an event. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone who lived at the time. 2. The word "Mesopotamia" means A) Middle of the fertile crescent. B) Land in the middle of the desert. C) Land between the rivers. D) Land north of the sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Land between the rivers. 3. Before the ..... Revolution, people were ..... A) Paleolithic, monsters. B) Neolithic, nomads. C) Neolithic, hunter-gatherers. D) Innovations, cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neolithic, hunter-gatherers. 4. Prussia's final war for German unification was fought against this country in 1870. A) Denmark. B) Austria. C) Italy. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) France. 5. What force generated by a person's actions that determines how the person will be reborn in the next life known as? A) Karma. B) Yoga. C) Reincarnation. D) Nirvana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Karma. 6. Why would a writer from the Abbasid Empire comment on features of Indian culture and technology? A) He saw Indian Hindu culture as a viable alternative to Arab Muslim culture. B) He chronicled Indian culture because he expected it to disappear once Islam spread across South Asia. C) He hoped to profit from grateful Indian leaders who might read his complimentary comments. D) He surmised that Abbasid merchants were deeply involved in exchanges with Indian merchants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He surmised that Abbasid merchants were deeply involved in exchanges with Indian merchants. 7. What country is not part of North America? A) The USA. B) Canada. C) The USA. D) Colombia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colombia. 8. How did Egyptians get water to their crops? A) Irrigation. B) Plow. C) Wagon. D) Chariot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irrigation. 9. Philosophy that emphasized filial piety and leading a good life ..... A) Hinduism. B) Confucianism. C) Islam. D) Judaism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Confucianism. 10. Highland, marine, semiarid, and desert are different types of ..... A) Climate. B) Area. C) Regions. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climate. 11. Which of the following is NOT a role played by Medieval monasteries during the Middle Ages? A) They preserved valuable books and manuscripts. B) They served as hospitals for the sick and hungry. C) They received pilgrims and travelers as no inns existed. D) They became the armed forces for most people in Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They became the armed forces for most people in Europe. 12. What important discovery separates the Paleolithic and Mesolithic eras of the Stone Age? A) Tools. B) Fire. C) Agriculture. D) Weapons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fire. 13. The Chinese invented all of the following except: A) Porcelain. B) Paper. C) Silk. D) Number zero. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Number zero. 14. A king or queen who is a supreme ruler is called a ..... A) Top Dog. B) Missionary. C) Butterfly. D) Monarch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monarch. 15. Which empire conquered most of Asia A) Greece. B) China. C) Rome. D) Mongol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mongol. 16. How did Mesopotamians make money? A) Theft. B) Killing. C) Trade. D) Government. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trade. 17. Tactic used by the Russians to defeat France when Napoleon invaded: A) Scorched Earth Policy. B) Blockades. C) Continental System. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scorched Earth Policy. 18. A system of government in which political power resides with the people. A) Autocracy. B) Democracy. C) Oligarchy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Democracy. 19. The number of people in a given land area A) IMF. B) Immigration. C) Emmigration. D) Population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population density. 20. A rapid spread of a disease over a wide area is called a/an ..... A) Fleas on rats. B) Epidemic. C) Flu. D) Germ. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epidemic. 21. If a person lived in a Maroon community there were? A) An escaped slave. B) A French born plantation owner. C) A native of Haiti. D) A French citizen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An escaped slave. 22. Two broad themes of history are continuity and change. Continuity refers to the ways that A) One event caused other events. B) Things stayed the same over time. C) Peoples have remained distinct and diverse. D) Parts of the world affected each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Things stayed the same over time. 23. The Fertile Crescent was A) Where the Pillsbury Dough Boy makes crescent rolls. B) Rich, fertile land that included a plain known as Mesopotamia. C) The land around the Nile River that was lush farmland. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rich, fertile land that included a plain known as Mesopotamia. 24. Which one of these is NOT a reason China was isolated? A) High mountains. B) Barren deserts. C) Thick jungles. D) Immense swamps. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immense swamps. 25. The radicals who took over the revolution were led by A) Robespierre. B) Louis XVI. C) Rousseau. D) Marquis de Lafayette. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robespierre. 26. The Neolithic Revolution was the shift from hunting and gathering to ..... in various parts of the world. A) Systematic agriculture. B) Travel. C) Empire building. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Systematic agriculture. 27. Along what RIVER did the Harappan Civilization develop? A) Jordan. B) Nile. C) Ganges. D) Indus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indus. 28. What is the meaning of the term agriculture? A) Farming. B) A culture that is similar to yours. C) A culture that is different than yours. D) Changing animals or plants for human use. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Farming. 29. People with no permanent home are called A) Nomads. B) Mopeds. C) The untouchables. D) Aryan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nomads. 30. Imperial bureaucracyRoad systemTolerance of conquered peopleZoroastrianismThe characteristics listed apply to which society? A) Ancient China. B) Roman Empire. C) Persian Empire. D) Ancient India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persian Empire. 31. They named one of these ancient cities Harappa. What did they name the other city? A) Ganges. B) Mohenjo-Daro. C) Memphis. D) Himalayanna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mohenjo-Daro. 32. According to John Green, what is an upside of diseases? A) They could be used for biological warfare. B) There is no positive aspect of diseases. C) They could help populations "shield themselves from conquest" by other populations. D) They kept population density low. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They could help populations "shield themselves from conquest" by other populations. 33. Which of the following was NOT a cause for the French Revolution? A) Price of food. B) Taxes. C) Wars. D) Drought. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wars. 34. What does AD stand for? A) Anno Domini. B) After Death. C) After Domini. D) After Detention. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anno Domini. 35. "It was in Italy that ..... awakened a perception and treatment of all things of this world in general; but by its side ..... there also arose the subjective; man becomes a self-aware individual and recognizes himself as such." -John Burkhardt, The Civilization in Renaissance Italy, 1860 The passage above reflects the Renaissance ideal of- A) Positivism. B) Empiricism. C) Humanism. D) Imperialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humanism. 36. The center of the Zapotec civilization A) Nile. B) Indus Valley. C) Monte Alban. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monte Alban. 37. Once people learned how to raise plants and animals they no longer had to: A) Swim. B) Fish. C) Migrate. D) Hunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Migrate. 38. The term democracy means "rule by ..... " A) The mob. B) The president. C) The people. D) The monarch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The people. 39. Which empire used iron weapons, horses soldiers, battering rams, and movable towers? A) Babylonians. B) Neo Babylonians. C) Assyrians. D) Akkadians. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assyrians. 40. The longest river in the world, the annual flooding of which left a rich deposit of mud that enriched the soil and allowed Egyptian farmers to grow a surplus of food A) Ganges. B) Olmec. C) Nile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nile. 41. The idea that "reason" could be used to solve all human problems came to be called the time of ..... A) Church of Revolution. B) Let there be light. C) Enlightenment. D) The Season of Reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enlightenment. 42. ..... are drawings made on a flat surface that depict the entire Earth, or some of its parts. A) Maps. B) Coordinates. C) Historical Illustrations. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maps. 43. Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life? A) Gilgamesh. B) Sargon. C) Nineveh. D) Hammarabui. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hammarabui. 44. What instrument revolutionized sailing? A) Radar. B) Chinese flute. C) Peridot. D) Magnetic Compass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Magnetic Compass. 45. Event where knights would ride towards each other with blunted lances (long poles) in attempt to knock each other off of their horse A) Page. B) Chivalry. C) Squire. D) Joust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joust. 46. Between 1450 and 1750, empires such as the Ottoman and Chinese shared which of the following? A) The use of a large bureaucracy to support the government. B) Continual military campaigns against European armies. C) Dependence on trade as the main basis for the economy. D) An elite fighting force made up primarily of slaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The use of a large bureaucracy to support the government. 47. What is the name of the seasonal winds that cause wet and dry seasons in India? A) Monsoons. B) Tsunamis. C) Hurricanes. D) Tornadoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monsoons. 48. The self-sufficient economic system of the Middle Ages was called A) Mixed Economy. B) Manorialism. C) Communism. D) Feudalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manorialism. 49. The race for European countries to claim land in Africa was called the ..... A) Monopoly. B) African Marathon. C) Scramble for Africa. D) Great Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scramble for Africa. 50. Is all of the people who inhabit (live in) a certain region. A) Population. B) Environment. C) Migration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population. 51. Why was the Printing press so important during the Renaissance? A) It helped spread his ideas of Humanists. B) The bible was only printed in Latin. C) People began printing newspapers in America. D) People began writing mean articles about Kings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It helped spread his ideas of Humanists. 52. Which society was the first to practice direct democracy? A) City-state of Athens. B) Empire of Alexander the Great. C) City-state of Sparta. D) Persian Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) City-state of Athens. 53. What does absolute monarch mean? A) A group of people who control shopping. B) A single ruler who rules with the opinion of all his subjects. C) A king/queen who believes their power comes from God. D) A king/queen who holds all the power in their country. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A king/queen who holds all the power in their country. 54. As a result of the Qing Dynasty's military weakness, European countries were enjoying their own special privileges in China. These areas where they enjoyed special privileges and trading rights were known as . A) Boxer Protocols. B) Sepoy Centers. C) Platt Amendments. D) Sphere of Influence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sphere of Influence. 55. The Magna Carta helped introduce democratic ideas to England. The first democracy in the ancient world arose in A) China. B) India. C) Rome. D) Greece. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Greece. 56. Why was voting in the Estates General unfair A) Each estate got the same number of votes. B) The King got two votes. C) Each estate voted by how many members there were. D) Votes were not secret. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Each estate got the same number of votes. 57. What was the practice of charging interest on a loan that was forbidden by the Catholic Church? A) Price gouging. B) Nepotism. C) Usury. D) Excommunication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Usury. 58. Which society lived in small groups constantly moving to find food, water, and shelter? A) Hunter-Gatherer. B) Early Agriculture. C) Civilization. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hunter-Gatherer. 59. Because of this, scientists can only draw conclusions about the past. A) Artifacts. B) Culture. C) Limited evidence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limited evidence. 60. The Shang were the first people in China to A) Develop a writing system. B) Use advanced metal tools. 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